We are doing a play-by-poll of The Black Spire Pact on Backerkit. Just pop on over to the Community tab and vote on the daily poll to compel Voth! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...

Thanks to Hunter and Ryan for letting me join them and for playing an early draft of The Black Spire Pact! The campaign launch is this morning!!!

I'm really excited to announce the latest version of our demo is now live! We've worked really hard on this and would love feedback from anyone that tries it out. store.steampowered.com/app/2626080/... Release Notes: madebygare.com/posts/corvia... Discord: discord.com/invite/xsq2F... #gamedev

An excerpt from today’s @flaminghand.bsky.social newsletter:

Demons, devils, portals, and a lot of booze. We're putting it out tomorrow for free. Guess what it is? (Post your guess in the comments) Don't want to miss it? Click the link to get it as soon as it's out. mailchi.mp/crumbling...

I have been working on something special. A new system for 2 player competitive adventure gamebooks based on Old School Essentials! Coming to Backerkit in May!! Play as a great Demon, Marax, or as the high level sorcerer Voth! Art by Arik Roper and Skinner!! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

The synthesizer is, culturally, a transgender instrument.

We still have these on the Flaming Hand website! Perplexing Ruins always kills it.

A wonderful review of Death Cut In Stone from Zach over at Short Rest Press. Ran into him at Adepticon and traded zines. First time anyone has written about something I've put out and it feels pretty fucking good.

Always fun to get to rant.

Great to finally sit down and play Twelve Years at Sea, by @maxmoon.bsky.social . My first crew, two captains and two pacifists on a raft, spent 3 years lost in the fae mists, fled from a dragon, finally discovered a marshy island and immediately got eaten by crocodiles. 10/10 🐊

It is risen. flaminghand.com

Now I have 2 shirts with my art printed on them out in the world! Thanks @maxmoon.bsky.social for the wonderful opportunity 🙏 The green one for the band @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social on this year’s Double Infinity tour 😮 I hope folks wearing these out get some cool looks & 2nd takes

Going live with Caustic, a good buddy of mine and fellow TTRPG artist, in about 24 hours!! We'll be drawing some horrid shit so be sure to tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=phzg...

More graphic design play/venting. Protesting has been the best medicine for all the fear, anxiety, outrage, grief, and aggression I feel. But this also helps a little. #minnesotaproud #fuckice

Did you know that all Minnesotan made buffalo check contains a hidden message?

Reminder: when they say no one is above the law, they forget that the people are above the law. The law gets its authority from the people. We grant authority and we can take it back.

We mourn with power. We continue strong.

New episode! Ryan sits down with prolific illustrator, art director, and generally awesome guy @davidhoskins.bsky.social to talk art, games, the year behind us, the year ahead us, and more.

My favorite books of fiction I read this year: -The Neverending Story: Michael Ende -The Old Gods Awaken: Manly Wade Wellman -Phantastes: George MacDonald -The King of Elfland’s Daughter: Lord Dunsany -The Princess and the Goblin: George MacDonald -The People that Time Forgot: Edgar Rice Burroughs

New update for my Death Cut In Stone, my brutal old west skirmish game that hacks Violence from @lukegearing.bsky.social. Some tweaks throughout, including changes to Deployment, as well as Injuries in Melee combat. This is probably the last update before I drop the "final" full art version.

I am a recluse. I don’t want anyone to know what I look like. But also, I am a firm believer that if I am afraid of something, that is a good reason to do it. So I thought, well if I don’t want people to see my face, then I think I should design a shirt with my face on it. Stoked to print these.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I still hear people talking about how good AI is for prompting creativity and helping with ideation. This comes from a highly uninformed position on the topic of creativity. Here we go. 🧵 Creativity isn’t about quantity of ideas. However, creative folks do tend to have more sparks of ideas. But..

In this world that increasingly devalues physicality and craft, we are conversely motivated to produce beautiful objects. Physicality matters. It impacts our experience. Disembodied content reinforces Cartesian duality and the hierarchy of mind over body. Ink is good. The body and mind are one.

I got a chance to play this recently and it is so damn good. Highly recommend giving it a go!

OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

We learned today that all the brakes need redone….nearly $1000. If rotors, than $1400. 😔 So reworking some old originals to put up for sale soon cause that kinda bill puts me back 3 months… Hope to have about 5 pieces available

Highly recommend this. Texting some folks right now. Thanks to @theweeklyscroll.com and @explorersdesign.bsky.social for practicing community generosity by taking the time do do this episode and sharing their insights. Amazing.

Loved getting to play some Rumpus with TWS!

"No fonts? We'll make them. Other publishers said it's too much trouble? We'll still do it. … No electricity because of airstrikes? Our designers plug into generators and keep going. That's the spirit of the game, defiant. And that's the spirit of Ukraine right now. So… perfect match.”

Go give a listen to Dark Valley’s Twelve Years at Sea soundtrack! It turned out so damn good. darkvalleyds.bandcamp.com/album/twelve... #dungeonsynth

We have a fascination for the Hand of Glory. So, we had to make one…or 100. These are available for preorder now. A collab with Mithras Candle. Made with black beeswax and tallow. Includes a ghostly zine of 5 rituals and a new translation of an excerpt from Le Petit Albert! flaminghand.com

Oh hey, we're live to review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS from @joeyroyale.bsky.social, a ttrpg that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities to save your beloved town of Fairhaven. go here 👇 twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll

Our new publishing company and store is up and running. If you haven’t already got Sölitary Defilement…there aren’t a lot left….again. We try to keep this in print but demand is constantly surprising us with being even greater than the last run.

Perplexing Ruins NPC illustrations for Abyss of Hallucinations are absolutely perfect. Decadent, psychedelic, and weird as fuck. Thank you for your vision!

Throwback to one of my favorite commission art pieces! I drew this for the solo game Twelve Years by @maxmoon.bsky.social I was so proud at how i captured this weird fae exploration vibe

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Last chance to back Twelve Years at Sea and get in on the free stretch goal content! The Sea Wizard’s ritual has begun. Can you stop him before it is too late? I bet you can’t. www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

In 2021-2022 I absolutely adored 12 Years, playing it multiple times and even doing a live play on a private discord server. Then I apparently went to live under a rock and remained completely unaware of its MULTIPLE EXPANSIONS. Just stumbled across the latest one in its final hours on Kickstarter.

I've been working on a soundtrack for Twelve Years at Sea: a game by my friend @maxmoon.bsky.social. Only 3 days left on KS! It's an epic seafaring expansion for the game Twelve Years, & adds a huge amount of narrative depth to what was already a fantastic work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

I gotta admit I am pretty stoked to wear some @perplexingruins.bsky.social ruins art daily! Yes, I do wear my own merch. For some reason when I was in bands I would never do it, but I love the shirts we make far too much to not wear them!

Remember when you paid for a service to access the internet and the whole internet was free? Increasingly we pay for subscriptions to access the ability to pay for subscriptions to be able to upgrade our subscriptions from preview to functional service, hidden behind paywall after paywall.

New Episode! We sit down with friend of the show and one of our favorite people in the world, @maxmoon.bsky.social! Max is here to talk about TWELVE YEARS AT SEA, the epic seafaring expansion for Twelve Years inspired by classic weird fiction, mythology, and Harryhausen films.

Yo, check out the new expansion for Twelve Years by @maxmoon.bsky.social !! Also, just for kicks, I've got some art on a tshirt in this!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

You should back this if you like rad ass TTRPGs you can also play on your own. @maxmoon.bsky.social makes the coolest stuff. (Check out that sweet shirt by @perplexingruins.bsky.social ! Can’t wait for that to come in too.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

We are launching Twelve Years at Sea tomorrow!!! Sitting down alone with pencil and paper and playing an epic fantasy game is my number one way to get my head out of the doom scroll and to engage in catharsis. Put on a tape. Draw some hexes and dungeons. Sail off beyond the horizon.

Dig RPGs? How about fantasy art from the 70s and 80s? Zines? Comic books? Heavy metal? The occult? Bizarre shit? Join the Vintage RPG Newsletter! It's like walking into the local weirdo book shop circa 1986! www.vintagerpg.com/newsletter/

If you haven’t heard of or played Twelve Years yet, then here you go! Twelve Years is a solo or multiplayer procedurally generated rules light ttrpg focused on classic archetypal fantasy positioning the epic quest as central rather than any one character. It’s also a hexcrawler and dungeon crawler!

Do you play solo games? Have any favorites? I have been surprised how much I love Mini Rogue. Barbarian Prince was amazing but it also gets my brain firing on how to accomplish the same goals with a bit more elegant mechanics. Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf gamebooks are phenomenal.